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Researching Stonewall Nation: Interdisciplinary Considerations For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Research, Jacob Carter 2013 University of Massachusetts Boston

Researching Stonewall Nation: Interdisciplinary Considerations For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Research, Jacob Carter

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

The Alpine County Project, a climactic event in the gay liberation movement when activists took steps to create a self-governing separatist community in a remote region of rural California, is a largely forgotten topic of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) history. Though historical scholarship treated the project marginally within broader conceptual or regional contexts of gay liberation, the project had not been examined comprehensively in its own right. When approaching the topic, the initial historical problem to resolve was determining whether the project was a hoax staged to generate publicity or part of a genuine gay and lesbian separatist movement. …


Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Jenkins, James C., 1812-1856 - Letters To (Sc 680), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 680. Two letters to James Jenkins, Bowling Green, Kentucky, from New Orleans commission merchants, discussing terms of sale of lard, hams, grease, pork, tobacco and beef consigned by Jenkins.


Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Van Meter, William Swan, 1891-1958 (Sc 997), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 997. Letter, 11 May 1919, written by William Swan Van Meter, Hardin County, Kentucky, to his mother while stationed in Germany serving with the American Expeditionary Forces. He notes General John J. Pershing’s request that every soldier write his mother that day (Mother’s Day), and describes military life as a soldier awaiting his next orders. Includes a photocopy of a photograph of Van Meter in uniform.


Garrison, Lucien, 1874-1957 (Sc 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Garrison, Lucien, 1874-1957 (Sc 998), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 998. Based on stories of Lucien Garrison’s father, Calvin A. Garrison (1800-1895) and his uncle Samuel Crosthwait (1823?-1912), Garrison’s manuscript emphasizes the location of Bowling Green residences, schools and businesses.


Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford, 1818-1871 (Sc 681), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 681. Letter, 1 January 1864, of Union Army General Jeremiah Tilford Boyle, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, to Captain Alexander C. Semple, Louisville, Kentucky, regarding changes of command in the state.


Word, Elizabeth, 1914-1995 (Sc 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Word, Elizabeth, 1914-1995 (Sc 996), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 996. Letters (19) to Elizabeth Word, Warren County, Kentucky, Home Demonstration Agent, from N. F. Elliott, University of Kentucky landscape professor; outlines for landscape presentations (13) by Word, and sundry materials related to landscape gardening.


Disinvestment Trifecta: Parking, Highways, & Urban Renewal In Minneapolis An Historical Analysis Of The Gateway District, Scott Vargo 2013 Macalester College

Disinvestment Trifecta: Parking, Highways, & Urban Renewal In Minneapolis An Historical Analysis Of The Gateway District, Scott Vargo

The Macalester Review

Minneapolis, like many post-industrial cities, went through a massive land transformation in the decades following WWII. While the factors behind this transformation are numerous, this paper will hone in on several inter-related developments that had significant detrimental effect on the vitality of Minneapolis: parking lots, the interstate highway system, and the never ending quest to vanquish traffic jams. Viewed through the lens of “urban renewal”, and focusing on the Gateway District of Minneapolis, this paper will examine how and why the combined forces of economics, suburbanization, and misdirected city planners converted a once vibrant neighborhood into a sea of asphalt …


Thomas, Richard Curd, 1838-1879 (Sc 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Thomas, Richard Curd, 1838-1879 (Sc 675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 675. Statement of Richard Curd Thomas, a Bowling Green, Kentucky physician, to George Stayton, itemizing charges for visits, overnight stays, prescriptions and an obstetrics case.


Fremont, Jessie (Benton), 1824-1902 (Sc 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Fremont, Jessie (Benton), 1824-1902 (Sc 679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and sample scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 679. Letter of Jessie (Benton) Frémont, Los Angeles, California, to a cousin, Letitia Hart Alexander of Louisville, Kentucky, relating some Hart and Gooch family relationships. Includes photo of Mrs. Fremont made in 1899.


Duncan, Benjamin, 1772-1809 (Sc 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Duncan, Benjamin, 1772-1809 (Sc 678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 678. Cipher book kept by Benjamin Duncan, of Culpeper County, Virginia and Fayette County, Kentucky. Includes samples of legal forms and letters.


Wallis, Richard (Sc 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Wallis, Richard (Sc 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan of a sample (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 677. Pages from a copybook containing penmanship samples of Richard Wallis.


Elections And Election Campaigns - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Elections And Election Campaigns - Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (Sc 676), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 676. Certified election return of the Rosemead Precinct, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, showing candidates and number of votes received in the election held on 8 November 1892.


Memo To Du Provost And Chancellor, Dean Saitta 2013 University of Denver

Memo To Du Provost And Chancellor, Dean Saitta

John Evans Study: Supporting Materials

Memorandum sent to the University of Denver's Provost and Chancellor about interest in a study on John Evans and the Sand Creek Massacre.


Shattered By War: The Huber Family, John M. Rudy 2013 Gettysburg College

Shattered By War: The Huber Family, John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

The tale of Sergent Frederick Huber is relatively well known. The young man, fighting at the battle of Fair Oaks, was struck by three rounds, the final a bullet through his breast that quickly sapped him of his life. The Adams Sentinel reported the incident in the early summer days of 1862, underlining Frederick's bravery in the face of the great beyond. "Tell Father," he reportedly said with his dying breath, according to the Sentinel, "I have died for my country." [excerpt]


Cleveland, Frances (Folsom), 1864-1947 (Sc 671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Cleveland, Frances (Folsom), 1864-1947 (Sc 671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 671. Letter written by Frances (Folsom) Cleveland, from the White House, Washington, D.C., to Henry J. Payne, Morganfield, Kentucky, expressing her appreciation for a gift and the good wishes Mr. Payne had sent to her and President Grover Cleveland.


Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Washington, Mary (Ball), 1708-1789 (Sc 672), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 672. Printed copy of the will of Mary Washington, mother of President George Washington, as registered in the Clerk’s Office at Fredericksburg, Virginia.


Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Weeks, Estella Terry, 1886-1969 (Sc 670), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan representative of material in the collection (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 670. Correspondence of Miss Estella T. Weeks of Washington, D.C., with Mary (Taylor) Leiper Moore, Kentucky Library, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to Weeks’s research on the Shakers and the holdings of Shaker material in the Kentucky Library.


Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Grider, Benjamin Covington, 1826-1874 (Sc 2679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2679. Military orders, reports and correspondence of or to Colonel Benjamin Covington Grider, commander of the Ninth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The reports and Grider’s letter to his father detail action during the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Includes a memorial tribute to Grider’s son, Judge Loving Grider, with some family information.


Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Patterson, Frank Young, 1895-1969 (Sc 901), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 901. World War I discharge certificate of Frank Young Patterson of Rockfield, Warren County, Kentucky.


Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives 2013 Western Kentucky University

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963 - Assassination (Sc 904), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 904. Visitors’ recollections of where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination. These recollections were recorded in connection with an exhibit in the Kentucky Library commemorating the 30th anniversary of Kennedy’s death.


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